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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Edwin Lefèvre

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Paper book: €46.99

Digital: €15.99

Original publication
1923
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
785
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Biography and Autobiography, Economics
Moods
Get ahead in life, Meet a real life
Translated from
English

Book summary

As a young boy, Larry Livingston starts out in a brokerage house, chalking up stock prices on a board. He becomes one of the greatest speculators on Wall Street, and tells of his strokes of genius, his bankruptcies, and everything his mistakes taught him about the markets and about himself.

A cult book among traders and investors, still read for its lessons on risk, patience and keeping your emotions in check.

Told in the first person, like a long conversation, it is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

A boy who predicts stock prices. At 14, Larry writes stock prices on the board of a brokerage office. He sees that they often move in the same way.

The world of the book

New York’s stock market around 1900. Wall Street, the street of the Stock Exchange, is the center of money in America. Here people buy and sell shares in companies: stocks. Their prices change every minute, and the…

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